--- title: Plastic and rubber do not let electricity flow easily, so they are u… — Electricity at home · tree and pragmatics description: Plastic and rubber do not let electricity flow easily, so they are used to cover wires. Who acts: Plastic. A sentence of the lesson «Electricity at home» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/32-electricity-at-home/13/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [Electricity at home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/32-electricity-at-home/) / 13 # Electricity at home, sentence 13 Plastic and rubber do not let electricity flow easily, so they are used to cover wires. **Who acts:** Plastic · **What happens:** not let, flow, use, cover · **To what, where:** Plastic, wires This is a sentence of the lesson «Electricity at home» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Plastic), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:032-electricity-at-home.lesson:13 # text = Plastic and rubber do not let electricity flow easily, so they are used to cover wires. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 032-electricity-at-home.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Plastic plastic NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 2 and and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 3 rubber rubber NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 conj _ _ 4 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 5 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 6 advmod _ _ 6 let let VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 electricity electricity NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 flow flow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 9 easily easily ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:advmod 10 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 11 so so ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 12 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 13 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 aux:pass _ _ 14 used use VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj 15 to to PART TO _ 16 mark _ _ 16 cover cover VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 advcl _ _ 17 wires wire NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obj _ _ 18 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **let** | present · do-support | Plastic and rubber | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **flow** | infinitive | Plastic and rubber *not said here* | | | | | easily *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **use** | present · passive | | Plastic | | | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 4 | **cover** | to-infinitive | | wires | | | | | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme wire=Destination | One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree. **Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:everyday:032-electricity-at-home.lesson:13`. **The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Electricity at home, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/32-electricity-at-home/12/) - next →: [Electricity at home, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/32-electricity-at-home/14/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/32-electricity-at-home/)